Saturday, April 25, 2009

More on The Strange Experiment of Doctor Purefoy from director Thomas Smith:

Synopsis:

Corey is failing Biology, and her only hope of graduating is an extra credit job as assistant to creepy Professor Purefoy. It's an easy job, but when Corey begins to wonder what's in all those boxes she's picked up for her teacher, what started off innocently soon spirals into a nightmare of physical and psychological manipulation. Forget graduating. Just try to survive.

Kaiju Search-Robot Avery has scored a few shots from the upcoming "family"-made giant monster film, Attack of the 50 Foot Ghoul Girl (directed by Brian Nichols). Now you can check out the Ghoul Girl herself, as she's growing, along with (and I'm guessing here) (1) the mad scientist responsible) and (3) an intrepid aviator come to deal with the problem) ...

Yes, it's the sequel to Onechanbara: The Movie [aka Chanbara Beauty] (Japan-2008; dir. Yôhei Fukuda). As we mentioned earlier, it's called Onechanbara: Vortex. We've had the teaser; now here's the full trailer:

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Remember George's Intervention? No? Well, we introduced you to it on Undead Backbrain last year. Basically it's about a bunch of friends who set up an intervention to help their friend George with his problem ... his problem being that he's a zombie and is killing and eating people.

Anyway, a new trailer has appear on Dread Central and the movie has really expanded in scope. Looks terrific!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

While we're on the subject of giant snakes, it seems that Thai director Pleo Sirisuwan is in post-production of a follow-up movie to his previous giant-snake-in-the-jungle flick, Vengeance. This one is called The Scout.

Synopsis:

Scouts visit an ancient temple to witness a lunar eclipse. Hearing campfire stories of the legendary god who protects the temple, they decide to go on a treasure hunt. Finding themselves lost in a parallel universe, they must find the way back before the end of the eclipse traps them.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Murder! The director of the County Institute of Science is found dead in her office, clutching a handful of feathers. A pool of blood, a locked door, no witnesses—the local constabulary is confounded. The Institute's eccentric sponsor convenes a séance in hope of discovering the truth. Can the victim return from beyond the grave to offer a clue to her own demise? And if she does, will she come alone?

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sorry, you can't see the Ghoul Girl herself... yet. But here are two more views of the set that the 50-Foot Ghoul Girl will no doubt trash in Attack of the 50 Foot Ghoul Girl, a "family film" directed by the ghoul girls' dad, Brian Nichols.

The film will premier at this year's Monster Bash in Butler, PA -- Nichols Family Flicks are apparently quite an institution there.

This information is brought to you by Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, the world's biggest supporter of genre micro-flicks.

Now we've heard from director Thomas Smith about the progress of the small independent project and other news from Fighting Owl Films:

I've attached three new images from the filming of The Strange Experiment of Doctor Purefoy. Two of the images give us our first glimpse at the mysterious Dr Purefoy, while the last shows us Corey and Danny in action.

In other news, our previous film The Night Shift is now available on IMDb. The DVD retails for US$11 and can be purchased on our website. All proceeds from the DVD sales go towards helping us finance our first feature film. Stay tuned for the latest...

The Night Shift is an excellent independent short film, which we featured a while back on Undead Backbrain. Getting it in DVD quality would definitely be a Good Thing.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Jaws of the Mississippi (US; dir. Griff Furst) is about a radioactive shark -- and, though big, it may not be unusually so.

Synopsis:

A massive hurricane devastates the Gulf of Mexico, with it a US government’s top-secret anti-bioterrorism facility. When one of its highly radioactive chemicals spills into the ocean, it triggers mutations in a great white shark, enabling its adaptation to survive in freshwater. As this shark wreaks havoc on local Mississippi River towns, it poses the additional risk of spreading this radioactive material and contaminating the entire freshwater system of the United States. Local fisherman Ward and his hillbilly crew are secretly hired to hunt down this shark, and when they find it threatening a group of teenage boaters, Ward must face his troubled past to save these kids and prevent further catastrophe.

Monday, April 6, 2009

For those who don't know, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery is this small, multi-functional AI who can squeeze between the narrowest of pixels and ferret out esoteric information on upcoming giant monster and zombie films with a flick of his optical-fibre antennae, especially where low-budget independent cheapies are concerned. (Mind you, he can make himself very big -- daikaiju-size -- without any trouble whatsoever and when he does you know the place is bound to end up as a heap of crumbling celluloid.)

Well, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery turned up at my backdoor this afternoon with his latest catch and dumped it right there on the mousepad.

It's called Attack of the 50 Foot Ghoul Girl (US-2009; dir. Brian Nichols) -- a short monster-on-a-rampage family-oriented creature feature that is currently in production.

Avery's playback mechanism recorded Brian Nichols saying:

Thanks for asking about our movie! We've been showing our homemade monster movies at the "Monster Bash" for about 5 years now. My girls have played the "Ghoul Girls" in several of our movies. This time around one of my daughters will become 50 feet tall -- sort of a take-off on Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Our movies are really low budget but lots of fun to make (and hopefully watch). By the way, I'm the director and I'll be in the movie, too.

Known as a "Nichols Family Production", Attack of the 50 Foot Ghoul Girl will have its world premiere on Sunday, June 28th at the Monster Bash convention in Butler, Pennsylvania, where David "The Rock" Nelson is a regular guest of honor every year.

Creepy Classics Videos has provided a behind-the-scenes image of one of the miniature streets that the Giant Ghoul Girl will no doubt trash.

Says Brian: "This is the city street we're building. It has quite a ways to go before it's finished but this will give you an idea of what it's going to look like."

Good luck, Brian! I'm sure those who are able to attend with love it. Maybe you can put it up on the web afterwards so the rest of us can see it.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Twitch has grabbed hold of a trailer for Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg (HK-2009; dir. Jeffrey Lau), which is still in post-production. Further upgrades to the SFX are promised, but from these scenes the SFX moments aren't too bad -- it's the weirdly Chinese tonal shifts that cause one to raise an eyebrow.

Anyway, this trailer wasn't meant for public showing, so who knows how long it will remain available? Watch it quick.

At any rate, you will see the giant robot cop in action:

Trailer:

This is an English version -- not so much dubbed as audibly translated. If you want, you can watch the Chinese version on Twitch.

A sequel to Onechanbara: The Movie [aka Chanbara Beauty] (Japan-2008; dir. Yôhei Fukuda) has been announced. It's called Onechanbara: Vortex. Aya's back (though with a different actress, I think) -- a cowgirl-themed, bikini-clab samurai who hunts zombies in a world suffering through a post-zombie apocalyptic stage of Earth history.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

The 1962 UK version of The Day of the Triffids was pretty good as a movie, despite its two barely related stories -- the main one by credited director Steve Sekely and another add-on by the uncredited Freddie Francis. At the very least it gave us the famous lines from the title song of The Rocky Horror Show: "And I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills."

As a version of John Wyndham's classic apocalyptic novel The Day of the Triffids (1951), however, the BBC's 1981 mini-series beats it hands-down. It stuck to the book as well as can be expected, and featured a memorable approach to the title ambulatory plants themselves, making them flower-like and rather beautiful, instead of the 1962 film's grotesque monstrosities.

Anyway, now the BBC has announced that they are filming the story again, this time directed by Nick Copus and starring the likes of Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Jason Priestley and Brian Cox.

Synopsis:

In the not too distant future, man's search for an alternative fuel supply leads him to uncover the ominous Triffid, a crop now cultivated for its fuel that seems to have a life of its own. But when billions of humans are mysteriously blinded, the Triffids find their way out of captivity. Free to roam the planet with a fatal sting, and a retributive taste for human flesh, the Triffids begin rapid breeding.

Now Dr Bill Masen (Dougray Scott) must lead the brave in their epic battle against the Triffids' reign of terror in what could be the last days of mankind.

It sounds less apocalyptic than it might be and I hope the modern passion for neat resolution doesn't dilute the power of the original story by introducing some lame method of destroying the Triffids (as in the 1962 film, where it was sea water!).

What we always want to see as a lead-in to these monster mashes is, of course, the critters. Paul Bales of Asylum Entertainment has sent along an early rough-cut of the titular stars of the upcoming Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus (US-2009; dir. Ace Hannah), engaged in their first conflict. You can read more about the film here.

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